Spilostethus

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Spilostethus
Spilostethus pandurus MHNT Fronton.jpg
Spilostethus pandurus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Family: Lygaeidae
Subfamily: Lygaeinae
Genus: Spilostethus
Stål, 1868

Spilostethus[1] is a genus of bugs in the family Lygaeidae (seed bugs). Most species in this genus are from the Palearctic and Oriental regions.[2][3]

Species[]

These species belong to the genus Spilostethus:[3]

  1. Linnavuori, 1978
  2. (Bolivar, 1879)
  3. (Distant, 1918)
  4. (Montandon, 1893)
  5. Spilostethus crudelis Fabricius, 1781
  6. (Stål, 1867)
  7. Spilostethus furcula (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850)
  8. Spilostethus hospes (Fabricius, 1794) (darth maul bug)
  9. (Stål, 1855)
  10. Linnavuori, 1978
  11. (Dallas, 1852)
  12. Stål, 1874
  13. Scudder, 1962
  14. (Stål, 1865)
  15. Bergroth, 1914
  16. (Gerstaecker, 1873)
  17. (Boisduval, 1835)
  18. Spilostethus pandurus (Scopoli, 1763)
    type species (as Cimex militaris Fabricius JC = S. pandurus militaris) - Europe
  19. Spilostethus rivularis (Germar, 1837) (brooklet milkweed bug)
  20. (Horvath, 1899)
  21. Spilostethus saxatilis (Scopoli, 1763)
  22. Deckert, 2013
  23. (Stål, 1865)
  24. Spilostethus trilineatus (Fabricius, 1794)

References[]

  1. ^ Stål C (1868) Hemiptera Fabricana I. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 72.
  2. ^ "Spilostethus". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  3. ^ a b Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2021). "genus Spilostethus Stal, 1868". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2021-10-05.

External links[]

Biology of S. furcula with notes on identification
Media related to Spilostethus at Wikimedia Commons
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